Frieze London

Frieze London

Gray Wielebinski

15.10.25 - 19.10.25



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NıCOLETTı is delighted to announce its fourth participation in Frieze London, with a solo exhibition of new works by London-based, American artist Gray Wielebinski (b. 1991, Dallas, TX).

 

Spanning installation, video, sculpture and collage, Wielebinski’s practice explores the intersections between political history, power relations and gendered eroticism. Collage – both as medium and methodology – lies at the core of his practice, allowing him to fragment, reassemble, and subvert dominant iconographies and systems of beliefs rooted in American history, mythology and popular culture.

 

At Frieze, Wielebinski presents a new series of works that further his investigation into the aestheticization of violence. Alluding to a fairground shooting booth, the exhibition features a group of resin sculptures cast from existing gun grips. Both seductive and threatening, these objects are displayed on a gaming table whose shape evokes the infinity sign (or the number 8), suggesting a haunting parallel between American sports culture and the seemingly endless recurrence of high school shootings.

 

These ideas extends into a sequence of mosaic-style panels composed of ceramic tiles that are used in the production of ballistic armour. Mounted in custom walnut frames, these works can be seen as shooting targets, protective shields, or portals – antithetical functions through which Wielebinski explores the psychological and visual architecture of violence: how it is normalised, ritualised and aestheticised.

 

Employing the visual lexicon of minimalism and abstraction, Wielebinski’s presentation deconstructs the aesthetic of power through a nuanced interplay of play, spectacle, and threat, interrogating their function in the formation of Western mythologies and the perpetuation of imperial ideologies.

 

Gray Wielebinski was born in 1991 in Dallas, TX, and currently lives and works in London, UK. He received a BA from Pomona College, Claremont CA, in 2014, before completing an MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK in 2018.

 

Wielebinski’s solo and duo exhibitions include: Of course I know eternity: Wilhelm Traeger + Gray Wielebinski, Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK (2025); The Red Sun is High, The Blue Low, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, UK (2023); Fratricide, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Love and Theft, 12.26 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Oil and Water, Hales Gallery, London, UK (2023); and Selfridges Art Block Commission, London, UK (2023).

 

His work has been shown in group exhibitions at Phillida Reid, London, UK (2025); Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK (2024); Strong Winds Ahead, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles CA, (2023); Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy (2023); Hanna Barry, London, UK (2023); Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK (2022); and Bold Tendencies, London, UK (2022), among others.

 

Wielebinski‘s work is in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives CA; and Benton Museum of Art, Claremont CA.

 

His first book, ‘100 Baseball Cards,’ was published with Baron Books in 2022. In 2025, he launched PACK, a book featuring over 200 of the artist’s full-page collages, published by Lichen Books.



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